Hi
I have just watched the dome going over the Chernobyl reactor which is an incredible feat of human engineering in the face of adversity. However it has reminded me that I dont consider Nuclear power to be an acceptable or safe form of energy creation.
I think I am 100% right in that we should never have been creating enriched Uranium/plutonium (or whatever it is 235...238) which is so dangerous to us and so dangerous to dispose of. I know there is natural radiation in the universe but the natural ecosystem of this planet developed on the basis that a load of Humans werent going to come along and start messing with gamma rays on that level. Its just polluting the planet and the Chernobyl exclusion zone is a deeply sinister example of how we are destroying our own planet. A Half life of thousands of years + is not something we should be messing with.
They sent people in to clear up in the name of duty who were clearly going to die as a result. The long term effects of radiation is still being monitored as people live on contaminated land.
In my view Nuclear power plants should all be decommissioned, no new ones built and we should be concentrating on power generation that is safe for the planet.
What do you think? The anti nuclear prostesters are clearly right. lets have a debate on this